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YouTube has deleted the decade-old Bitcoin.com channel, claiming its content was “harmful and dangerous,” with no prior warnings or strikes.

QuickSwap’s Discord was hacked by an unauthorized party. Users are warned to avoid the server, but funds remain safe.

X is preparing to introduce a new security feature that will automatically lock and verify accounts posting cryptocurrency content for the first time, aiming to neutralize the majority of crypto scam incentives as hacked celebrity accounts and mention spam continue to plague users.

Elon Musk’s X has hired Benji Taylor, a designer with extensive crypto experience, as its new head of design. Taylor previously led product and design at Aave Labs and Coinbase’s Base, bringing deep expertise in crypto and financial products to X.

X is doubling down on its financial ambitions—bringing in a top crypto-native designer just weeks before the anticipated launch of its all-in-one payments platform, X Money.

A jury found Meta and Google liable for harming a teen through app design, awarding $3 million in damages. The case focuses on platform design, not content.

Elon Musk paused X’s creator payment changes after global creators warned it would cut earnings for English-language accounts. The current payment system will stay while X reconsiders the update.

OpenAI is shutting down its AI video platform Sora, ending its social app and API while keeping AI image generation in ChatGPT. The move also cancels a planned $1 billion Disney partnership that would have allowed users to make videos with licensed characters.

Meta is offering top creators guaranteed pay and boosted reach to post Reels on Facebook. The programme rewards original content and gives access to monetisation tools.

Three Tennessee teens sued xAI, saying its AI Grok made sexual images from their real photos. They claim the company knew the risks and want damages and a stop to further abuse.